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You all were right the chips in the gelcoat were not the source of the leak. The culprit was my old beer cooler! I'd even gone to the extent of filling the boat with five inches of water with no leaks. Then it just occurred to me that one of coolers was leaking and sure enough it was that 20 year ol...

Jim, its not a very large volume, a pint to a quart, but still the water would have to be traveling fast as you point out. Yet still the transom drain is at the lowest point in the boat while in the water. Maybe six to eight hours would be enough to travel back there from the bow? Don't know what a ...

The work on the gelcoat this Labor Day weekend was to first power sand with a six inch disc sander at 50 grit and then finer sanding with a random orbital sander at 220 grit. Here's some pictures: Closeup sanding chips.jpg Overview sanding.jpg Nauset overview.jpg While waiting for the gelcoat to arr...

Jim, the chips are below the water line when two or three people are in the bow fishing.

Thanks Paul, the under lying fiberglass seems to be undamaged but my main motivation is to stop a leak so apparently there is some damage or possibly tiny cracks letting in a slow leak. Or some other leak. I forgot to mention that it is a fresh water boat and always on a trailer meaning that the lea...

My 1970 Nauset has had a slow leak--about a pint or a quart--from the transom drain hole when I pull it out after a day's fishing. Some time ago, a storm surge lifted the bow unto the pier and bashed about a hundred chips from the bow gel coat. The apparent leak thru the gel coat has become a concer...